Most people interested in software development using Microsoft tools will be aware of a recent re-org at Microsoft – no surprise, churn at a large organization is to be expected and welcomed. As a result some people were moved around the business and I was given the opportunity to try something new. I’d had a lot of fun working with my friends on Workflow but I felt ripe for a new challenge and was particularly excited by the new project – which I’ll talk about in significantly more detail over the next few days.

Now, looking forward I’m jolly (British for super) excited to be working with the WCF RIA Services team – in particular joining their RIA/JS jQuery client effort and looking at how we can build the ultimate end-to-end experience for HTML and JavaScript developers. In particular I’ll be looking at rich HTML applications (think JavaScript heavy and fewer pages) and how they can rock with our end-to-end story including for mobile devices; both mobile web applications and even cross-platform native applications such as those built with frameworks like PhoneGap.